Afghanistan

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Afghan Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi (right) walks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to the interior ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Afghan villagers pray during a ceremony on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, for the victims of Sunday's killing of 16 civilians allegedly by a U.S. soldier in Panjwai, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Obama during a protest in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, following Sunday's killing of civilians in Kandahar province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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U.S. Army and Afghan troops stand watch in a guard tower at their base in Panjwai, Afghanistan, in Kandahar province, on Sunday, March 11, 2012, after a U.S. Army sergeant allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians in nearby villages. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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Left to right: Spc. Chris. Weber of Bainville Mont. who suffered multiple injuries including a badly broken back after falling off a cliff in Kandahar providence, Retired Staff Sgt. Mike kacer, of Scranton Pa. who lost his arm in a rocket explosion in Afghanistan on June 18, 2008, and Spc. Brynden Keller of Indianapolis, Ind. who lost his leg outside of Kandahar Providence in Afghanistan competes in a sprint race as Army veterans from across the United States in the Army Warrior Games clinics try for a chance at a spot on the Army Warrior Games team, Fort Meade, Md., Sunday, March 11, 2012. The 2012 Warrior Games, held April 30th - May 5th in Colorado Springs, Colo., features representatives from Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Special Operations and will compete for gold metals in archery, cycling, wheelchair basketball, shooting, swimming, track and field, and sitting volleyball. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Anar Gul, right, is interviewed as she sits next to the body of her grandson, allegedly killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. A U.S. service member walked out of a base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, according to villagers and Afghan and NATO officials. Villagers showed an Associated Press photographer 15 bodies, including women and children, and alleged they were killed by the American. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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An Afghan soldier speaks to civilians gathered outside a military base in Panjwai, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012, after a U.S. service member allegedly killed 16 Afghans, including nine children and three women. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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An Afghan woman gestures toward the body of a child who allegedly was killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, in Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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**FILE** Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers on March 23, 2011, inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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An Afghan refugee girl reacts March 4, 2012, after another child stole her food voucher while she was queuing in front a truck organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 24, 2012, file photo, Afghans shout anti-American slogans during an anti-U.S. protest in Ghani Khail, east of Kabul, Afghanistan over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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**FILE** Black smoke rises from tires which were burnt by protesters as Afghan policemen march during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Yemenis burn the U.S. flag on March 1, 2012, to condemn the reported burning of holy Korans in Afghanistan by U.S. troops during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan protestor holds a copy of Islam's holy book Koran as he shouts slogans during an anti-U.S. demonstration on Feb. 22, 2012, in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani protesters burn representations of U.S. flags in Lahore on Monday to condemn the reported burning of Korans in Afghanistan by U.S. troops. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged calm, calling on his countrymen not to allow insurgents to capitalize on their indignation to spark violence.

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Afghan soldiers secure the scene of a suicide attack at the gate of an airport in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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An Afghan policeman calms down a protester in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, during an anti-U.S. demonstration prompted by the burning of Korans and other religious materials by U.S. forces at the Bagram Airfield earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Ezatullah Pamir)

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Afghan policemen run toward an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mehterlam, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Protesters threw rocks at police, government buildings and a U.N. office in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, kicking off a fifth day of riots sparked by the burning of Korans at a U.S. base, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)